So we can admit that the ultra heavily tweaked Jeff speakers sound "natural" ?
Quoting Jeff "To kick off the project we removed the stock Westminster Royal SE's internal low & high frequency crossovers, and all of the internal wiring and connectors. "
And then he replaced everything with cursed tweaks"including beautiful walnut & maple isolation platforms to mount the Duelund CAST components on" See https://positive-feedback.com/audio-discourse/duelund-coherent-audio-from-denmark-the-duelund-wrse-project-part-2-duelund-cast-silver-capacitors-and-duelund-cast-silver-copper-autotransformers/
Fransisco, Perhaps we are reading different articles. You like to reference reading material. My comments are based on the Jeff Day blog I linked in the original post of this thread. He discusses Altec speakers. He does not discuss the Tannoys to which you refer. Here is what he actually wrote:
"I have a pretty good idea of what Stokowski thought equipment should be like to sound "live", given I own the last pair of the personal loudspeakers Stokowski owned before he moved back to the UK from the USA, the custom "Stokowski" Altec loudspeakers that were probably built around the time the drivers were produced, 1961 to 1964 (more HERE). "
Here again are his words summarizing his thoughts on the matter:
"The ability of a hifi system - or the individual components it is composed of - to be able to play a wide variety of recorded music from different periods, of different styles, and of varied recording quality, I refer to as the listening window.
The listening window is a subjective measure of how wide a variety of recorded music one can listen to through a high-performance audio system and still have it sound and feel believably like a live music experience.
My parents console televisions stereos from the 1950s and 1960s had a wide listening window that allowed for enjoyable listening of pretty much anything of any recording quality. How was that accomplished?
Yet many contemporary audio systems fail miserably at having a wide listening window, and can only accomodate a very narrow listening window of superb recordings, or risk sounding decidedly amusical on average recordings of great music.
A narrow listening window results in their owners buying the same audiophile recordings over and over again with each new remaster of the same old recording, because that's the only thing that sounds good on their stereo systems.
An increasing number of us hifi nuts and music lovers again want a stereo system with a wide listening window - like many of those high-performance vintage systems so easily achieved - so we can listen to whatever we want to whenever we feel like it - 78RPM recordings, LPs, reel-to-reel, FM, CDs, digital streams, whether they are of average quality or of superb quality, and still have it sound and feel credibly like a live musical experience. "
